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IPsec Offload for DPDK Applications
mlx5_core module offers offload support for raw Ethernet and kernel bypass drivers by exposing
a user interface to control the offloaded security associations in the FPGA.
Mellanox provides a DPDK Poll Mode Driver (PMD) which makes use of this interface. PMD
provides a new API for DPDK applications to open/close offloaded security associations (control
path) while transmitting/receiving traffic through them (data path). The data path is still done
with kernel network stack bypass, providing the application with the benefits of both DPDK
acceleration and security offload (encryption/decryption).
Please refer to
Mellanox Innova IPsec EN Release Notes
for supported versions.
